WILD GAME BIRDS (Historic Information)

Alaska is the great breeding ground of the water birds which
annually migrate southerly in winter. These include ducks, geese,
swans, snipe, curlew sandpipers, and a host of others which all resort
in thousands to the open tundras and valleys of the far north during
the breeding season. Three varieties of ptarmigan inhabit the higher
mountain tops of the coast and interior, and the tundras of Bering Sea
and Arctic Coast, including all the Aleutian Islands. Five species of
grouse are timber birds. Countless numbers of gulls and other sea-birds
breed on the tundras of Bering Sea and rocky coast islands. The
Government has set aside seven bird reserves in Alaska, the largest,
between the mouths of the Yukon and Kuskokwim Rivers. The others are
small isolated islands—St. Matthew, Hall and Pinnacle, Walrus,
Otter, and Bogoslof in Bering Sea; Fire, Chisik, and Egg in Cook Inlet;
St. Lazaría in Sitka Sound.